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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.

Janet Morris

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Hard
Twice
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Hot
Boldest
Men
Woods
Pierce
Price
Clay
Pay
Belly
Though
Wood
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Steel
Nature
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